Lisnpuppy Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I gotta say Signette, that has to be one of the few times someone has recognized and appreciated someone else's point of view. I know I haven't changed your mind totally but I appreciate the response you gave. So many folks get polarized on topics they refuse to see anything worthwhile in someone's posts. And I agree with what you say about the other kid. I don't think his issues began or ended with video games. That was a opportunity for him to spread his arrogance and hide behind the anonymity of the net. A few years ago the Smithsonian did a big feature about video games through the years, art in video games, music, etc and people could vote and look at the thing online or at the actual museum. Things like this are encouraging to me because this is how something that is seen one way begins to maybe change to a more mature view. Reminds me a bit of how Guggenheim put the modern art and artist in the spotlight. She made museums and bought the works. Now we may not have that kind of money but getting behind projects like the one I mention is a great way to get our "hobby" to be seen as art, innovation and something which has a voice to speak out to our culture. The debate of does art reflect life or does life make art is already something gamers are discussing passionately. But these things need discussed intelligently and not with "Dat game it suxs" kinda thing. We are our own worst enemy and greatest defender. To be able to have the cultural impact that many other entertainment mediums have, the discussion and the focus of the discussion has to start right here, like we do at present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signette Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 That's some fun fact I heard lately which I think worth sharing:I spoke with the woman, who works as a teacher almost all her life, she is pretty aged so she've seen few generations of children in her time. I remember when I was going to school, on breaks we've been running around in passages, playing soccer, fighting and etc. This woman remembers that too, but now, she says, on breaks children just calmly and silently getting out of classes or don't leaving their sits at all, taking their smartphones and spend all this time buried into these devices. No one's screaming anymore, things like breaking school behaviour rules is almost non-existent these days. It's not so much time passed really, could things changed that much? This little story I've heard seriously has it's advantages and downsides, so there can be argument, but taking perspective we've seen here, maybe this gaming and mainly techie-internet era is closer to us than we think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshinenbrick Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Just wait... virtual and augmented reality is soon be the new 'bad guy' in town. Games as we know them today, will become as old hat as books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signette Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 Just wait... virtual and augmented reality is soon be the new 'bad guy' in town. Games as we know them today, will become as old hat as books.Wish I will live to see this day, that's something worth living for actually, seeing progress with your own eyes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WursWaldo Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 I guess it depends on what kind of gamer you are and what kinds of games you play. When I go and see my father on the weekends we break out the old PlayStation and battle it out with Madden football. Both my wife and my mother laugh at us as we yell at the game and each other. But I can relate to the OP since my wife raises an eye brow at the work I do in 3d Poser. Like it or not, sexy outfits for female renders is what sells. I can spend two months working on a Ferrari model or I can spend a weekend making a bikini. The bikini will sell and the Ferrari will just sit in que. My wife is good natured about it but she still makes comments about my 'computer girl friend'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beardofsocrates Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Use to have to tolerate this all the way through my early college days. Honestly, the more you stop caring about other people's opinion the better off you are. Secondly, with the advent of virtual reality finding use in the medical world, and similar utilities for education and even e-sports it's easy to brush off criticism as ignorance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisnpuppy Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Exactly. I remember reading this when it came out...one of the many ways gaming and gamers can have useful real world applications.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/video-game-news/8774220/Video-gamers-solve-microbiology-puzzle.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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